Games workshop specialist games returning?

Really really good news. When did kirby leave? That is good news as well.

Still amazed and disappointed that they have destroyed fantasy. That will look really stupid when the totalwwarhammer game comes out, generating hype and interest in an old world setting that no longer exists.!
 
JHeaton said:
Oh of course there is appetite for them, I wasn't implying otherwise, but with the range of those type of games being more diverse now it might prove less effective than if they had done this four or five years ago. :p
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Agreed. It is incredible how badly run GW has been. The fact that other companies are makinga ddecent living in areas that GW has vacated is evidence of their idiocy.
 
EdwardTeach said:
Really really good news. When did kirby leave? That is good news as well.

Still amazed and disappointed that they have destroyed fantasy. That will look really stupid when the totalwwarhammer game comes out, generating hype and interest in an old world setting that no longer exists.!
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So are they officially leaving fantasy a dead?
 
They say they are.

My bet is that in a couple of years they'll bring it back closer to what it was (and possibly leave AOS as a side game that can use the same models*).
Apparently one of the retailers sold something like 400 copies of the 30k set in it's first week, but I got the impression almost no one sold many of the AOS sets.


*In the same way that IIRC Gorkamorka and Necromunda were side games to 40k and could share models.
 
I don't particularly follow Games Workshop much these days but when someone mentioned the world dying I read up on it and it was the most random **** I have ever read, really don't get the decision but there you go.
 
Well they didn't remove it exactly. They did a whole story about the world ending (I'd actually like to see them do this with 40k, would great to have the story advance rather than being stuck in the same state) and then advanced the setting many ages later. Apparently they're going to continue advancing the story rather than having it set in the same 'nothing changes' state that 40k is in.

I don't agree with the rules they created but I quite like the thematic ideas they're pursuing. There's nothing to stop you continuing to play 8th edition if that's what you like.
 
JayyCee said:
I would love to see Bloodbowl make a comeback.
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Same!

Fantasy Flight publish some of the old GW games such as Talisman, Dungeonquest and Fury of Dracula and have done a really good job of updating the components whilst retaining the feel of the originals.

I'd love to see new versions of Bloodbowl, Man o' War, HeroQuest, Space Crusade et al; I never really understood why they stopped publishing them in the first place, although I always suspected that GW's immense corporate greed made them resent the idea that customers could buy a relatively inexpensive board game and enjoy it without having to spend a fortune on codexs and miniatures...
 
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That's exactly why. Games Workshop don't make their money from dedicated fans any more, they make it from churning new product to kids who grow out of the hobby and are replaced with the next bunch of kids.
 
I got the new Horus Heresy game on release date and I must admit I'm extremely impressed by the amount of stuff you get and the quality of the plastics nowadays. Going to take a bloody age before I'm happy to let them be seen on the tabletop!
 
I'm super late to the party with this news and am pretty hyped. There isn't a single thing GW currently support that tempts me, but revisiting Necromunda, Bloodbowl, Mordheim etc would have me back in their stores and buying stuff!
 
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